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#6 Bad Pick - Liquid > Altair & Vivi (2010)
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3745-chaos-division-round-1-altair-vs-liquid-snake

Other than Kefka, Liquid Snake has probably been the most perplexing character in contest history. In 2004, he goes wire to wire with Frog and winds up looking nearly as strong as Solid Snake. In the Villains Contest, he struggles against Lavos and gets tripled by Sephiroth (we used to believe FF/MGS SFF was a thing, so that was explained away). In 2007, Liquid edged out Alucard by the slimmest margin ever (3 votes) in round 1 before finishing dead last in round 2 against Alucard, Master Chief, and Yuna. He did really well in 2008 against Luigi and Bowser. That leads us up to this contest, where Liquid needed the vote-ins just to get in, but I thought he got a favorable draw based on what we'd seen from him at times. Altair had done fine in 2007, but he looked to be on par with Duke Nukem, which didn't impress me. Vivi had also done fine, but he hadn't excelled in contests yet the way he has the last couple times. His most impressive win to date had been against Donkey Kong, which didn't mean much back then.

Liquid was actually the Guru favorite over Altair in round 1, but I decided to go a step further and take him over Vivi. Well, needless to say, Liquid never even got the chance as he was roundly 60/40'd by Altair and hasn't been seen since. Seriously, he couldn't even make it into CBIX, which had 243 characters in it. It still makes no sense to me that Liquid lost that handily because it's not like Altair went on to do great things afterwards. He lost 55/45 to Vivi next round, meaning that if Liquid had gotten his shot, he would've only been projected to get 36% against him. Liquid finished in between friggin' Sackboy and Laharl in the X-Stats, for crying out loud, which put him at 99/128. Seriously, what the heck?

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